I was delighted to be invited by Prof John Tomaney to lecture second year planning students on Tech City. As it was the second last day of term, I was a little concerned about attention spans. However I shouldn't have worried: a few tales of exotic ... Read More
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Dec2012
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Dec2012
I was delighted to be asked to attend Hackney Council's scrutiny review 'Making the Most of Tech City.'... Read More
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Dec2012
Today, the Demos report I have been working on with Jonathan Birdwell, Under the Influence: Feeling the Effects, was launched in the House of Commons. We were lucky to have ... Read More
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Nov2012
Nigerian Vice President Namadi Sambo together with a high-level delegation including Minister of Finance Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the Minister of Trade & Investment Olusegun Aganga were in London for the ... Read More
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Nov2012
In today's Financial Times, Algeria talks about its post-oil and alternative energy strategy.
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Nov2012
Was it my surname that prompted the Dutch journalist to call me, rather than the two Doctors I co-wrote A Tale of Tech City with? I enjoyed chatting with the De Volkskrant ... Read More
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Oct2012
GEMS Education is a global education company that owns and operates over 100 international schools providing high quality holistic education to over 100,000 students from 125 countries. It is the largest kindergarten to Grade 12 private school operator in the world with over ... Read More
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Oct2012
I was delighted to speak last night at an event organised by the Federation of Small Businesses, one of the sponsors of our report on Tech City. The audience - full of suits and ties - was very different than ... Read More
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Oct2012
I thought long and hard about the appropriate attire for convening a pre-meeting of the Market Streets Action Group (with the lovely Malcolm Allan of the Place Matters consultancy.) Formed in ... Read More
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Oct2012
Just back from a lovely trip to Brussels for the Lisbon Council think tank's 2012 Single Market Entrepreneurs Summit. ... Read More